Re: USR / Login without intervention

Steve Williams ( (no email) )
Sun, 14 Dec 1997 20:00:26 +1000

Text-based login if they choose "Show terminal window after dialling" in
modem options for that particular Dial-Up Networking connection. If no
terminal window is shown and no script is specified, DUN uses PAP
authentication.

TTFN
Sly (Steve Williams)
sly@oznetcom.com.au

> Dial up networking can handle text based login, it doesnt need a script
for
> that. All the user has to do is enter the username and password in the
> Connect To window.
>
> At 11:09 PM 12/13/97 +1100, you wrote:
> >All I want to do is let my customers login to the network, without them
> >having to run login scripts. If you connect to a RAS server, ie you have
> >Windows NT server with a modem attached to it and it is acting as a RAS
> >server, when you connect to that modem, you are not required to type
your
> >username and password through a text based screen, you can simply get
the
> >client to pass username and password through Windows dial-up networking.
At
> >the moment my customers connect to a RAS server through the USR using
PPTP,
> >they do not get a text based login screen. As far as I can see by using
> >RadiusNT and Emerald I have to set the USR settings to Dial In, and
present
> >a text based login. I was hoping to emulate what I have setup using the
RAS
> >server so there will be no disruption to the end users.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea.com>
> >To: emerald@emerald.iea.com <emerald@emerald.iea.com>
> >Date: Saturday, 13 December 1997 14:17
> >Subject: Re: USR / Login without intervention
> >
> >
> >>David Moore wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I am not sure what your question means I think what your trying to
ask is
> >>> can you make a connection via PPTP and Hardwired modems, and then use
> >radius
> >>> NT to conduct the accounting function over PPTP no I would not think
so
> >but
> >>> I do not posses the knowledge to really say.
> >>
> >>RADIUS itself is a passive authentication and accounting protocol.
> >>It does NOT actually change, interact or filter the flow of data
> >>(excluded just being able to specify a filter).
> >>
> >>Whether you have hardwired modems, dialup, etc, isn't going to change
> >>the basic functionality of what RADIUS itself accomplishes.
> >>Unfortunately, since I really don't know the scope of what you are
> >>trying to do, its difficuly to ask the right questions, much less
> >>help solve the problem. :(
> >>
> >>--
> >>Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea.com)
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